What is Superhero?
Superhero is a social and crypto application on the æternity blockchain. You can discover content, publish posts, tip creators, trade community tokens, and take part in on-chain governance, all from one app, available on the web, as a mobile app, and as an installable PWA.
A decentralized attention market for social trends, where creators own their content, communities become tradable markets, and attention is priced in real time.
The six pillars
| # | Pillar | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Own your content & identity | On-chain posts plus Superhero Onchain ID. Content is immutable, identity is yours. |
| 02 | Tradable trend markets | Communities and hashtags become tradable via bonding-curve tokens. |
| 03 | Attention market | Trends = hashtags = communities = tokens, with real-time market data. |
| 04 | Rewards & referrals | An affiliation system and the ProtocolDAO token reward participation. |
| 05 | On-chain posts & tipping | Immutable content, direct tipping, transparent interactions. |
| 06 | On-chain identity | Wallet + chain names + X handle, linked together on-chain. |
What you can do
| Action | Where | What happens on-chain |
|---|---|---|
| Publish a post | superhero.com (opens in a new tab) feed, or the agent CLI | A post_without_tip call on the Tipping v3 contract; text and media URLs become contract state |
| Tip a post | Post detail view | AE moves to the author's address |
| Create a community token | superhero.com/trends/create | The community factory deploys an AEX-9 token, a bonding curve, a token sale, a DAO and a management contract |
| Buy or sell a token | A token page's trade card | Tokens are minted or burned against AE along the bonding curve |
| Open a DAO vote | superhero.com/trends/daos | A DAOVote contract is deployed; opening it costs 555 AE, paid to the DAO |
| Vote on a platform poll | superhero.com/voting | A stake-weighted vote against the governance registry contract |
| Swap AE for another AEX-9 | superhero.com/defi/swap | A router call against the æternity DEX contracts |
Claim a .chain name | In-app name claim | An AENS claim; Superhero sponsors one per address |
How it works
Your funds stay in your wallet. There is no Superhero account holding them. Every trade is a contract call you sign yourself.
Tokens are priced by a formula. There is no bid, no ask, no maker and no taker. You trade against a bonding curve, and the price stays on that curve for the token's whole life. There is no graduation to an AMM pool. The sale contract holds a reserve sufficient to redeem the entire supply.
Everything runs on æternity. Superhero is a set of Sophia contracts plus an indexer and a
client. Community tokens are fungible AEX-9 tokens; .chain names are AENS entries. See
æternity Blockchain.
Posts are permanent. No one can delete a post from the Tipping contract. Moderation is a community-scoped mute list plus client-side filtering. See Moderation and On-Chain Social.
Every token ships with a DAO. Of the 1% trading spread, 0.5% goes to the token's own treasury and 0.5% to a four-level referral chain. Token holders vote on what the treasury does. The ProtocolDAO token is issued on buys; its governance functionality is not yet implemented.
Where the product lives
Superhero is one application surfaced four ways, all against the same contracts.
| Surface | URL or store | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Web app | superhero.com (opens in a new tab) | The primary surface |
| Installable PWA | superhero.com, "Install the Superhero app" prompt | Home-screen install, integrated wallet, push notifications, no app store needed |
| iOS app | App Store (opens in a new tab) | Ships with a built-in wallet |
| Android app | Google Play (opens in a new tab) | Ships with a built-in wallet |
wallet.superhero.com is a different product: the Superhero Wallet, which also exists as a
browser extension and as its own mobile app (Android package com.superhero.cordova). You can use
the wallet to sign for superhero.com, or use the wallet built into the Superhero mobile apps. Name
management lives in the wallet. See Choosing a Wallet.
Two other services appear in the app:
- api.superhero.com: the indexer and REST API behind the feed, token data and analytics. See API Reference.
- Chat: built into the web and mobile apps, over Nostr on
wss://relay.superhero.chat. See Chat.
Related
- Attention Markets: why a hashtag gets a price at all, and what that price means.
- Architecture Overview: the contracts and services behind each action in the table above.
- Where the Money Goes: the fee split, to the fraction.
- Quickstart: go from nothing to a first post and a first trade.
- Glossary: every term above, defined.
- Official Links: every official Superhero URL.